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Press conference

On September 16, 2010 took place at Gutenberg Bookstore a press conference in which the project "A young man involved, a young man richer" was launched, a project run by Caritas Eparchial Oradea and the Local Council of Oradea City.

The project runs between 1 September – 30 November 2010 and is aimed at developing civic attitude and philanthropic sense of the youth in Oradea and encouraging their civic involvement. The project team consists of Ana-Maria Lazar - project coordinator and Iulia Iova - assistant coordinator.

The project organizes meetings with representatives of eight non-governmental organizations in Oradea on promoting volunteerism in organizations and four training seminars for students of higher education in Oradea, on the civic involvement of young people.

The target group of this project is students aged between 19 and 29 years of Oradea and the direct beneficiaries of this project will be 3,000 young people that will learn about the civic involvement from the leaflets and posters to be made or seminars organized.

Also direct beneficiaries of this project will be the eight NGOs which in the organized meetings with their representatives will learn methods of best practice in working with volunteers.

The main project activities consist in carrying leaflets about volunteering and civic involvement, establishment of eight NGOs with whom will be organized meetings, establishment of institutions of higher education in Oradeawith whom will be signed the partnership agreement, preparation and conduct seminars in these institutions and youth involvement in voluntary activities based on personal interest.

Expected results from implementation of this project are to promote civic involvement in community of Oradea, community awareness and in particular to young students on civic and social problems of the community and increase the number of young volunteers involved in specific activities of NGOs in Oradea.